The little display (6 panels) that we help put up for the Malaysian Nature Society Roadshow in Miri 19-20th of June on the 1st floor foyer of Pustaka Miri, Jalan Kipas in town.
It took 2 late nites of captioning and putting pictures to board, 120+ images, numerous sorties to the stationary shop to purchase mounting boards, glue, double sided tapes for a less that 18hrs exhibit. 25 members and 20+ non-members turned up. Less than 10 curious stragglers, out of which we managed to convince 4 local kids to join us on a fieldtrip the next day.
I have mixed feelings as to how effective this was in reaching out to the public. The auditorium was not filled to the maximum during the short talk segment. The work that was put it, the effort lavished by everyone as well as the money spent in getting this going which in the end produced 4 new MNS members and a couple of articles in the local daily; a couple of members that we have not met before and several Mirians asking about what we do.
How do we measure the success of such things? It was good having the opportunity to talk to folks about a few interesting things in their own backyard which they didn't even know about. Best perhaps was the impromptu outing with the local boys who stumbled upon our exhibit and wanted to see the cliff and fossils of Tusan after having seen the pictures we put up.
Incidentally, two young boys wanted to grow up and become paleontologist, my week was practically made!
MNS Roadshow, Pustaka Miri 19th June
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